Brazil

BRASILIA, May 24 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Brazilian authorities have decreed a nationwide animal health emergency, it was published Tuesday in an extra issue of the Diário Oficial da União (Official Gazette), Agencia Brasil reported.

Agriculture and Livestock Minister Carlos Favaro signed the ordinance dated May 22 which will be effective for the next 180 days.

The measure seeks to prevent the disease from reaching the production of subsistence and commercial birds, in addition to preserving the fauna and human health.

BRASILIA, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's economic activity registered a growth of 2.41 percent in the first quarter of this year, compared to the last three months of 2022, according to preliminary estimates released by the Central Bank of Brazil on Friday.

According to the economic activity index, a leading indicator of gross domestic product (GDP), it was Brazil's highest quarterly advance since the fourth quarter of 2020.

Compared to the same period in 2022, Brazil's economic activity in this year's first quarter advanced by 3.87 percent.

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 12 (NNN-CMA) – Brazil will have a record harvest of cereals, beans and oilseeds in 2023, reaching 302.1 million tonnes, 14.8 percent more than last year, the state-run Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) reported, yesterday.

According to the Systematic Survey of Agricultural Production, released by IBGE, the area harvested this year with these products, will reach 76.4 million hectares, 4.3 percent more than in 2022.

Rice, soybeans and corn will account for 92.3 percent of the Brazilian harvest, and 87.3 percent of the planted area.

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 10. /TASS/: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Tuesday that he plans to offer Brasilia's services as a mediator for settling the Ukrainian conflict on the sidelines of the G7 summit, which is slated to be held in Hiroshima, Japan, later this month.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — After his swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 1, Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva walked up the ramp to the presidential palace arm in arm with Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, instantly recognizable by his yellow headdress and wooden lip plate.

BRASILIA, May 6 (NNN-CMA) – Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, yesterday urged the people to continue to get COVID-19 vaccines, though the World Health Organisation declared the COVID-19 pandemic no longer a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

“Despite the end of the state of emergency, the pandemic is not over yet. Take the booster doses and make sure your vaccination schedule is always complete,” Lula tweeted.

BRASILIA, May 6 (NNN-CMA) – Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, yesterday urged the people to continue to get COVID-19 vaccines, though the World Health Organisation declared the COVID-19 pandemic no longer a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

“Despite the end of the state of emergency, the pandemic is not over yet. Take the booster doses and make sure your vaccination schedule is always complete,” Lula tweeted.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Jonathan Schmidt arrived at Federal Police headquarters in the center of Rio de Janeiro with a travel bag carrying a golden pistol and seven rifles, one peeking out of the zipper.

“I’m in love with guns,” said Schmidt. “I’d have over 2,000 if the government allowed.”

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s Federal Police searched former President Jair Bolsonaro’s home and seized his phone Wednesday in what they said was an investigation into alleged falsification of COVID-19 vaccine cards. Several other locations also were searched and a half-dozen people faced arrest, police said.

The president confirmed the search on his residence while speaking with reporters, as did his wife Michelle on her Instagram account. She said her phone wasn’t seized, contrary to media reports.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police said Sunday they are investigating a shooting that killed one and wounded two Yanomami Indigenous people, saying the main suspects were illegal gold miners working in that area of Roraima state.

A police statement said in a statement that the incident took place Saturday and added that the government sent members of the Air force and the Indigenous issues agency FUNAI to help with the probe.